#HumanismAlways: Remembering the Person in Front of You

2025 McGovern Lecture

Reception to follow I Open to the public

Reflection and storytelling are integral pieces of medical education and patient care. How we see ourselves, the world, and our patients comes through experiential learning that is strengthened when we pause for deeper meaning. In this lecture, we will explore the importance of recognizing the human in front of us-which can sometimes be the one in the mirror-and all of the richness and growth that can happen if we just pay attention.

Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP is a general internist whose clinical work is at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta's safety net facility, where she has been for over two decades.

Dr. Manning is known for her innovative and mission driven approach to medical education and has been recognized nationally for her mentorship and teaching, as well as her blogging and public speaking. She received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of Black Women Physicians, and other prestigious awards. At Emory, she has received the highest teaching awards in the School of Medicine, Grady Hospital, and Emory's Internal Medicine Residency Program, respectively. Most recently, the City of Atlanta honored her with the 2024 Spirit of Atlanta Award for her exemplary service to patients and learners.

Her work has been published in journals such as JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, and The Lancet. She can be found on Twitter/X as @gradydoctor where she has over 100,000 followers.

Dr. Manning has a strong passion for storytelling as a means to build and strengthen diverse and humanistic clinical environments as well as cultivating psychologically safe learning climates. In addition to being a prolific writer of narratives in high impact journals and on social media, she co-hosts a podcast called The Human Doctor.

This lecture is made possible by the McGovern Prize Endowment. The McGovern Prize is awarded to an individual for outstanding contributions to the art & science of medicine.